Igbo rebuff of today’s Nigerian Army (I), by Ochereome Nnanna
For some years now, youths of the Igbo ethnic group, especially in the five states of the South East geopolitical zone, have been shunning enrolment into the military. In 2025, a Brigadier General, Chima Ekeator, led a team round the geopolitical zone canvassing for Igbo youths to take up their quotas. For instance, he said […]
Rise and “fall” of PDP (I)
By Ochereome Nnanna WHEN I look at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of today, I exclaim to myself: “How are the mighty fallen!” In terms of nobility of origin and nationalistic outlook, there is little to compare between the PDP and what we have today as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. After seven years […]
All eyes on Tinubu
By Ochereome Nnanna THE Nigerian Bar Association’s 62nd Annual General Conference, which held on Monday at the Eko Hotel and the Eko Atlantic City, Lagos, was an opportunity to eye over the major contenders for the 2023 presidential election. The theme was: “Democratic Transitions in the 20th Century Nigeria: 2023 and Beyond”. The NBA invited […]
Why the Atiku, Wike standoff matters
By Ochereome Nnanna THE three major parties – All Progressives Congress, APC; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP – are important to our democracy because the next president of Nigeria will emerge from one of them next year. In Nigeria, after God, the president is next in terms of power, authority and influence. […]
Risky politics of ‘placeholders’
By Ochereome Nnanna A NEW word has crept into our political lexicon. Before, it was known as “proxy”. Now it has a more glamorous moniker: “placeholder”: the act of sending a dummy to stand in for a candidate for a certain political office pending the completion of other “underground spiritual games” as Fela would say. […]
Tinubu’s Muslim/Muslim ticket obsession
By Ochereome Nnanna THE chances are that, by the time you read this article, the major presidential candidates – Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC; and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, would have announced their running mates. Of the lot, Tinubu’s matter matters […]
